4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Mar 17, 2018
“You can fool all of the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” ~ Inscription in the Fortune Cookie For some inexplicable reason, I expected The Fortune Cookie to be in color. Maybe in some sublim read more
Like Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder found his career at the crossroads in the 1960s. Successes such as The Apartment and Irma la Douce were offset by flops like Kiss Me, Stupid and the under-appreciated One, Two, Three. It's almost as if he couldn't quite grasp what appealed to t read more
Like Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder found his career at the crossroads in the 1960s. Successes such as The Apartment and Irma la Douce were offset by flops like Kiss Me, Stupid and the under-appreciated One, Two, Three. It's almost as if he couldn't quite grasp what appealed to t read more
Today, I'm looking at director Billy Wilder's classic comedy, The Fortune Cookie (1966), starring Jack Lemmon (above) as a man who is faking a spinal injury for a large insurance settlement.
This article is part of the Billy Wilder Blogathon hosted by Outspoken & Freckled and Once Upon read more
The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder, 1966)
CBS cameraman Harry
Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) gets injured
when football player Luther "Boom Boom" Jackson (Ron Rich) runs into him while he is covering a Browns game at
Cleveland Stadium. Harry's injuries are minor, but his conniving lawyer
brother-in-law Willi read more
About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. I've decided to expand the concept of "Quel Interprétation" into general interpretations inspired by classic films and not just limit it to dress-up. My latest (and tasty) installment is read more
